Page rank of 2 with zero SEO and a 2 month old domain?
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Hello,
I helped work on a website for a friend. We used wordpress, a theme from elegant themes and wrote the content over 4 days. Zero back links, no seo, etc. Well, a little on page optimization and that's about it. Oh, we did ONE back link from a review site.
The domain was brand new; never registered before.
About a week after it started getting indexed, it jump from no page rank to a page rank of 1. About a week later, it jumped to a page rank of 2.
Again, zero seo (aside from above stated).
The site is: trade lines review dot com
A page rank of 2 is nothing to write home about, but given the circumstances, how is this even possible?
Thanks you!
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You mean aside from the fact that I've been writing web pages for 15 years, do I have an article somewhere that someone who "discovered" the internet 5 years ago wrote to "prove" the point? No. Don't have it. However, I dropped a brand new, nicely optimized page on my website yesterday afternoon, and before midnight it was #4 on Google.
Here's the query: "Morningside Recovery Complaints"
You'll see the page sitting fat and happy at #4.
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I would like to know more quantified data as to why this seems to be so. Jim, do you have any articles, statistics or data to prove your statement? Now asking for myself. I am asking so that I can prove it to other people when I make the same claim....and they will definitely ask
Thanks!
Dana
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Page rank of 1 or 2 is quite minimal, and it's most likely due to your on-page seo. Sometimes brand new, well optimized content can rank on Google if it thinks it's unique enough. That's why blogging and creating content is so important.
Jim Y.
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I am curious to know what tools you are using to check your PageRank. Google very rarely updates PageRank. I think at most it's maybe 3 times a year. In my own experience it's been less often than that. So, the reason I ask is that PageRank is not usually changing as much as in the example you provided because Google simply doesn't update it that often.
There may be people here who know better than me how often this is done and how often it's been updated in the last year, like Dr. Pete Meyers.
I would check these things out before jumping to any conclusions about your new site's PageRank.
Cheers,
Dana
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